Friday 3/20: Local author, cartoonist, and graphic novelist Lucy Knisely chats about her two new works, Displacement and An Age of License. Women & Children First, 7 p.m.
Richard Price discusses The Whites. The Book Cellar, 7 p.m.
Roosevelt University’s Oyez Review presents a launch reading of Issue 42 at Quimby’s Bookstore. 7 p.m., free.
Joëlle Jones signs copies of Lady Killer at Challengers Comics + Conversation from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. While you’re there, check out artwork from the comic series on display!
Opaque invites you to drink ‘n’ dance at the release party for their inaugural issue. Uncharted Books, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Saturday 3/21: Women & Children First celebrates their renovated space all day with refreshments and artwork by Jill Kuanfung. 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., with a toast to the store at 3 p.m.
Ink & Blood turns one! The super secret society’s anniversary duel begins at 6 p.m. at Open Books.
Sunday 3/22: QueerReaders Book Club meets for the first time at Women & Children First. Pop in to discuss Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower. 2 p.m., free.
Sarah Peck and Jared Joseph read from their book Here You Are. Uncharted Books, 2:30 p.m.
Poetry Off the Shelf: USA Artists will feature Chris Abani, Natalie Diaz, and Achy Obejas—all 2014 USA Ford Fellows in Literature—for a reading and reception at The Poetry Foundation. 6 p.m., free.
3 Songs, 3 Writers Reading About Those Songs: it’s exactly what it sounds like. The Blue Ribbon Glee Club will perform Kiss Me Deadly by Generation X, Black and White by the DBs, and X Offender by Blondie, and Mike McPadden, Celia Forrest, and Dan Kelly will read about ‘em! Hosted by Quimby’s at LiveWire Lounge, 7 p.m.
Monday 3/23: Eric Greitens talks Resilience at the Pritzker Military Library. $10, 6 p.m.
Tuesday 3/24: Former Sunday Rumpus editor Gina Frangello provides An Inside Look at the Publishing Landscape during a one-night-only writing workshop at Women & Children First. To register, reach out to Sarah.
It’s utter Pundamonium! Test your wordplay against the best in a slam-style, audience-judged competition at Double Door. $8, 7 p.m.
Wednesday 3/25: Robert D. Putnam discusses Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis at Harold Washington Library, 6 p.m.
From Poet to Playwright: The Poetry Foundation and Goodman Theatre present a program of work by Pulitzer Prize-winner August Wilson. 7 p.m., free.
Catch Man Booker Prize-winning author Kazuo Ishiguro in conversation with Aleksander Hemon at University of Chicago Logan Center for the Arts. $10, 7 p.m.
Crystal Laura (Being Bad: My Baby Brother and the School-to-Prison Pipeline) and Maya Schenwar (Locked Down, Locked Out: Why Prison Doesn’t Work and How We Can Do Better) lead an interactive discussion about incarceration and the social forces that surround it. Co-sponsored by Chicago Books to Women in Prison and Black and Pink at Women & Children First, 7:30 p.m.
Thursday 3/26: A Night of Cartoonists welcomes special guest Nicole J. Georges (Calling Dr. Laura and Telling It Like It Tiz) along with comic authors Keiler Roberts (Powdered Milk) and Gina Wynbrandt (Big Pussy). Quimby’s, 7 p.m.